The door shook as Aerith attempted to pull it open by the handle, but it remained locked. She let out a sigh and continued down the dim moon-lit hallway. All the doors she had encountered so far were locked tight, and it was getting frustrating. Surely the dining hall and kitchen wouldn't be too far from the foyer. "Maybe it's down the other wing?" Aerith murmured to herself softly, a habit she developed after her husband had left for the hunt. "Ha… Maybe I'll stumble across the castle's library. I bet Roxas doesn't have books that belong to a royal family." The brunette snickered, feeling rather silly mumbling all to herself, but it helped to keep her calm, especially in a dark, cold, and supposedly haunted castle. Speaking of haunted, Aerith …show more content…
He let out a sigh of content, feeling the hot tea warming him up as he leaned back in the chair. Winter was fast approaching, and the night was getting colder and colder. Roxas glanced over at the fireplace, making sure the fire he made hadn't gone out before turning back to the book on his hand. Whenever old memories resurfaced, Roxas would find himself rereading the book titled, After the Salt-Water Lake Dried written by Hope Estheim, from start to finish in one seating. The book helped him; then and now. Standing up from his chair, he walked over to the small bookshelf in the living area and shelved the book away. He hoped Aerith had read the book too. He never asked. Picking up his cup, Roxas entered the kitchen to rinse it clean. His stomach rumbled slightly after he was done with the task. Earlier, he couldn't think of eating dinner without having his stomach somersaulting. But now, after the cup of flower tea, he was feeling much more relax and his appetite came back demanding something filling. Well, Roxas thought as he made a beeline to the pantry. I guess a simple meal before bed should be fine. Tacatac tacatac… Roxas stopped in his path as his ears picked up on a familiar sound. He furrowed his brows in confusion and strained his ears to hear it better. Tacatac tacatac …show more content…
It had been roughly two and a half hours since they bid farewell. Aunt Aerith should be in Radiant Garden by now. Did she decide to turn back? Why? Did something happen? The blonde felt his heartbeat quicken and quickly consoled himself. Don't overthink this, Roxas! It could be another rider. It doesn't have to be Aunt Aerith! Roxas took in a few deep breaths to calm himself down, but concern and curiosity still got the better of him, thus he strode over to the front door and opened it just enough to look out. A gush of cold night air blew past him, causing him to shiver, but Roxas continued to peer out to the fields for any incoming rider. The cantering was clearer outside; he could hear the hooves battering against the dirt path heavily. Roxas waited for a few more seconds before he saw it, the silhouette of a horse cantering over the hills and towards town. He felt his chest tightened again. The horse was alone; there wasn't any rider. It could be a wild horse. It could be a wild horse. It could be a wild horse. Roxas chanted it over and over in his head, but as the running animal came close enough to the candlelight of the porch lights, Roxas felt his stomach
He went on down the hill, toward the dark woods within which the liquid silver voices of the birds called unceasing - the rapid and urgent beating of the urgent and quiring heart of the late spring night. He did not look
Every human being needs certain rights to survive. There are the fundamental ones; food, water, air, shelter, but there are also other ones that are equally important to survive: love, communication, compassion, freedom. In many dystopian societies one of these fundamental needs are missing because the society is afraid that they will break the control that they have over the people. In the novel The Handmaid’s tale by Margaret Atwood the society is no different. Narrated by a woman named Offred who once was happy who had a family and a job, she shows the reader that to keep people quiet the society takes away people 's freedom, their ability to choose, their ability to be with and talk to who they want, even their ability to read and write,
sleep, Late in the evening the strange horses came. By then we had made our convenant with
A new society is created by a group of people who strengthen and maintain their power by any means necessary including torture and death. Margaret Atwood's book, A Handmaid's Tale, can be compared to the morning after a bad fight within an abusive relationship. Being surrounded by rules that must be obeyed because of being afraid of the torture that will be received. There are no other choices because there is control over what is done, who you see and talk to, and has taken you far away from your family. You have no money or way out. The new republic of Gilead takes it laws to an even higher level because these laws are said to be of God and by disobeying them you are disobeying him. People are already likely to do anything for their God especially when they live in fear of punishment or death. The republic of Gilead is created and maintains its power structure through the use of religion, laws that isolate people from communication to one another and their families, and the fear of punishment for disobeying the law.
In any society, laws and restrictions are placed upon the individuals living in it. These regulations can not only be a determinant of how one acts, but also how one perceives themselves. One issue that is undoubtedly going to happen to an individual is unfairness concerning one of society’s laws. Even if one is innocent of actions, regulations can cause an individual to feel as if that law is creating injustice. Does an individual have a right to oppose and rebel against perceived unfairness? Or shall one simply accept the unfairness thrust upon them? In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood, we meet a woman named Offred, who is a handmaid. She describes how her society is not always a positive influence towards the people living it. In connection to Offred’s opinion, in Plato’s Critio, Socrates argues that an individual needs to accept these regulations placed upon oneself. Both Socrates and Offred gives great reasoning behind their argument, but the connection found between both stories is that an individual needs to accept the terms given to them. To right against unfair regulations creates a huge controversy and can even cause injuries to a group or an individual. Society’s laws are not always positive influence however one needs to adapt life to make it more bearable. Laws are not always going to be fair and even if these laws interfere with individual needs, a person needs to corporate and find different alterations in order to survive.
In the novel, The Handmaid’s Tale written by Margaret Atwood, the story takes place in the Republic of Gilead. In this dystopian future, the women are seen as nothing more than children bearers. The novel is narrated by the character Offred, and her everyday life as a Handmaid. Handmaid’s are assigned to bear children for the elite classes who have trouble conceiving a child. The narration begins by Offred describing the place in which she was trained to be a Handmaid and patrolled by the Aunts, Sara and Elizabeth, who are meant to teach the Handmaid’s about the world before. In chapter two, Offred describes her life living with the Commander and his Wife, which whom she is trying to conceive for. She describes the home as having, “A sitting room in which [she] never sit[s], but stand or kneel only”(Atwood 9). This sitting room is where the
Margaret Atwood's futuristic “The Handmaid's Tale” refuses categorization into a single style, or genre. To me it blends a few approaches away from a predictable sci-fi or thriller fiction. Throughout the novel their were a few determinants or factors that decisively affect the nature or outcomes of certain events and how people behave or interact with one another.
Our deaths we've figured are assumed at this point. They've gone and given the same letters to our families that they do everyone else, informing them about us going missing and that they have presumed us deceased. I know it's on all our minds, what we would say to those we loved right now, if only they could hear us. Phil is deep in a prayer, whispering of his regret to not marrying his love sooner. 'If only he had been wiser, he would have been wed the moment he knew he loved her' he overheard Phil saying to himself. Mac was quiet mostly, he spoke once about the orphanage from his childhood, how he considered those who resided there with him as his family. As I listened to them speak, I realized that in their perspective, they were almost
Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale, like so many other dystopias before it, seeks to warn of disaster to come through the lens of its author’s society. In the breadth of its dystopian brethren, Huxley’s Brave New World and Orwell’s 1984, The Handmaid’s Tale reflects not a society destroyed, but a society reorganized to disastrous effect. The reorganization of Offred’s world is not one of simple misogyny, corruption, or political ideas, instead, as in 1984; the focus of this new world order lies in the destruction of the individual and with that, all concepts of personal gain, satisfaction, and desire. In its place, the new world order thrusts a quasi-communist idea of community. Personal sacrifice is instilled in the populace as the greatest good, and the death or misery of one individual is negligible when compared to the decided ‘good’ of the community. In a true echo of communism, the handmaids bear children for those who cannot, truly in the stead of “from each according to their ability, to each according to their need” (Marx). In this Americanized distortion of communism, the community is placed on a pedestal above all else, and through this emphasis the cross-class destruction of individuality is assured. By echoing the most prominent issue of the time, communism, and detailing it with unique aspects of American society, Atwood creates a realistic nightmare that warns not of the dangers of a particular political ideology, but of the loss of individual identity and the concept of self.
muttering of tepees, the blowing snow, the white air of the horses' nostril . . .
In the movie Spirit, a curious stallion, wanders away from his herd, towards a peculiar glow one night not far from his herd, and goes to investigate. He finds bounded, pliant horses and their cavalryman sleeping around a campfire. While he puts his
The Handmaid’s Tale and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? draw on different narrative techniques to establish our relationship to their protagonists. Margaret Atwood allows the reader to share the thoughts of the main character, while Philip K. Dick makes the reader explore the mysteries behind the story. Atwood’s style works because she can directly show her readers what she wants. Dick’s opposing style works for him because he can present paradoxes and mysteries and let the reader form the conclusion. Both of these styles are skillfully utilized to create complex stories without losing the reader along the way.
The novel, The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood focuses on the choices made by the society of Gilead in which the preservation and security of mankind is more highly regarded than freedom or happiness. This society has undergone many physical changes that have led to extreme psychological ramifications. I think that Ms. Atwood believes that the possibility of our society becoming as that of Gilead is very evident in the choices that we make today and from what has occured in the past. Our actions will inevitably catch up to us when we are most vulnerable.
“[W]e are not slaves in name, and cannot be carried to market and sold as somebody else 's legal chattels, we are free only within narrow limits. For all our talk about liberation and personal autonomy, there are few choices that we are free to make” (Berry). In The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood the protagonist Offred lives through a changing of society, in which is described by Aunt Lydia in the new society as the difference of freedom to and freedom from. The complexities of freedom are examined through social norms, relationships, and safety in society. As Offred notices the differences between her old life and her life now readers, especially North American readers, see how much freedom they take advantage of as a society.
“Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” examines the relationship between the narrator and his surroundings. It appears as if the narrator admits a close personal connection with nature that can be viewed as irrational to the rest of the people. The narrator meets a horse for who he is sorry for being in the dark along. This horse being abandoned is without food and water. He is exhibiting his humanism and for his love for animals as well. A meaning behind the horse can be is that horse are domesticated animals. Being an animal, it is a part